Hello everyone, I've decided that I'm going to give another forum game a shot.
This will be a fantasy civilization type game. You will run a tribe of people/beings of whatever race, and find resources, food, explore, etc. I want this to have the feel of the game act-raiser, where you are a spirit or god or somesuch guiding these people, but they also have minds of their own for you to deal with.
The primary focus here will be on story and plot. I've run these games before with fancy maps, and big made-up systems with numbers and rules. I'm not really planning to focus on that sort of thing. Stuff will be subjective and I will reason things out with logic. If your tribe had a good hunt the prior turn, then you won't have starvation issues the next and so on. I expect it will be more of a back and forth storytelling between the players(and myself).
Looking for around 4-5 players. I'm not going to take the first few who sign up though, I'm looking for good writers, and creative ideas. So reply here with an application. I'll give it a couple days, then choose the most interesting to start off(feel free to vote/give support if you see someone else's application you like).
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Tribe Name:
Race Name:
Race Description:
World/Region Name:
World/Region Description:
Tribal Personality:
Tribal Strength:
Tribal Weakness:
Initial Story Action:
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Tribe and Race names should be pretty simple to figure out. What do you call your group as a whole and what do you call your species. Description of the race should give physical descriptions, any sort of mental or mystical things specific to the race, or any cultural things you will want to see happen as your civilization grows.
World name again is just what you call your world, while world description will tell me about where your group lives, Put things in here like biome, animals, plants, resources nearby, neighbors, special things(underwater, surface of a sun, middle of a black hole, etc.)
Personality should be a place to list things like goals and desires of your group. While strength and weakness should be an indication of what you are good and bad at. You can have as many strengths and weaknesses as you like, but be aware the more broad the subject, or the more number of subjects you list I will give you less of a boost when it comes to writing up how it effects things. Also please add at least one strength and one weakness. It will give flavor to your group.
And finally in the application here put in what your tribe would do in the first month. I will write 'turns' based on months, and you can do just about anything, but remember to use common sense and logic and things should work out nicely. I will also try and have at least one random event type thing for each person. I plan to try and make things go around a turn a day, maybe every other day, but I'm not really going to wait on inactive people, nor will I promise constant updates(see below).
Keep in mind that for this game I want things to be very fluid and open. I don't know how long my interest will stay, I tend to fade as games go on. I'd like to get this to a point where the players could continue on enjoying the game even if I'm not responding constantly. I think this has the potential for such.
My responses will be mostly to keep things moving, and to weave the story between groups that may or may not ever meet. Stuff like combat between mer-folk and space shadows from a black hole will likely have major debates here in the thread. I don't want to be as much of a judge, as a mediator for such debates, until logic and common sense reasoning can push things along. And as such, I will likely make up a race of my own, so that I can pass on the mediator role to someone else if the time comes.